Posted on 07/04/2004 6:39:03 PM PDT by SkyRat
The Outcome Based Education Program (Goals 2000) already does screening on students and their families. The children are given personal questions to answer as part of their curriculum, and the family information is put on file.
If you have a child in a public school, they know more about you and your family than you know about yourself. They get everything they need from the kids.
We'll all be on prozac soon.
Good one. This idea, though, even if it's well intentioned, opens up all sorts of avenues for abuse down the road. Citizens could find their right to vote curtailed, disqualification to run for public office and even wills nullified.
Some would say marraige, in general, is the result of momentary mental illness.
This might be a good idea. Consuming preschool children was banned long ago.
Good one. This idea, though, even if it's well intentioned, opens up all sorts of avenues for abuse down the road. Citizens could find their right to vote curtailed, disqualification to run for public office and even wills nullified.
Your children taken...
Where do the people come from who buy into this stuff?
Or SOMA.
(a) Implementation of the Screening tests.
(b) A whistleblower who was fired for exercising the First Amendment.
(c) An argument about whether they should scrap the old medicines and go big time with the new, more expensive medicines, and
(d) Kick-back scandals and how much more the pharmaceuticals donated to the Republicans than they did to the Dems.
But I see another story here that hasn't been touched on. If the entire population is going to be screened, ostensibly to optimize the quality of life for all, this means that everyone will be blood sampled and their genetic codes will be in a master data base.
This worries me for several reasons, one of which opens up old fears concerning population pruning and maximizing the potential (future) tax base to keep up with interest payments and cost of government and its socialistic programs.
No, I don't believe they are going to open the ovens again . . . not when they can chemically pin-point and reduce what has been described as 'useless eaters' groups, either by age or by measure of usefulness and/or productivity.
But those are only the beginning of my fears if this screening actually is implemented. Consider how easy it would be to rule over a zonked-out population.
Also consider that under current gun-control laws (not sure if state or federal), you will be unable to own a gun if you are being chemically treated for an unbalanced mental condition. Correct me if I'm wrong about that.
Well, this should be enough food for thought. Someone tell me I'm mentally ill for stating the above and you'll make my day.
Happy Fourth of July to all. But I fear the fireworks haven't begun yet.
Your tag line ("It was horrible, a monster...like, like, with the body of a crab and the head of a social worker") illustrates your point.
Social services, not services of socialism.
My tag line is a quote from Woody Allen.
Not country in the world could pull off a screening of its "whole...population" for mental illness, not even the great and mighty USA.
Much less make sure that 300 milion people take their pill every day.
What might seem like a ridiculous possibility is that say, a first grader that likes to play cowboys and indians could be considered potentially violent and possess a fascination with guns. What type of "treatment" will they provide for him? Then, it becomes part of his permanent health record and what would that do for potential future job opportunities, especially if the only notation is "potentially violent and a fascination with firearms"?
One addendum - An Executive order was signed April 29, 2002 to establish the commision, so the wheels are already in motion on this one.
Keep talkin like that and you'll be identified as needing to be 're-educated'.
Of course you are correct in your assertion.
There is no reason such a horror as the state locking up those who hold conservative views/christian views/straight views can not occur.
We have quit following the rule of law and the constitution is an interesting document but one that doesn't seem to have any impact on government anymore.
Mr. Conservative is at it again.
How much is this compassion going to cost?
I agree. I hope this is campaign bullsh*t and about as serious as the Mars spaceshot endeavor he was pushing a couple of months back.
But we're all forgetting that it is the federal gubmint's role of provider and protector at stake here. it's even in the Constitution: '...to provide for the defense, common welfare, and mandatory psychological health of its citizens'. And in the Declaration: 'When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to screen everyone against potentially harmful mental imbalances, including but not limited to depression, overt aggression (including road rage (Ben Franklin added that part)) and frustration due to lack of Passion Parties...'
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